In Nova Kakhovka (Kherson region), an attempt was made on the deputy head of the Novokakhovka administration for housing and communal services, Vitaly Gur, who was installed by Russia, he is in a hospital in serious condition. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a source in the administration.
According to the interlocutor, the attack took place near Gur's house. Unknown people shot him with a Makarov pistol, and spent PM shells were allegedly found on the spot, the source claims. Now the issue of transporting a pro-Russian official to Crimea is being decided.
The agency also released a video filmed at the site of the alleged assassination.
The head of the “VGA” of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, previously installed by Russia, was hospitalized , he was connected to a ventilator and put into a medically induced coma. Stroke and heart attack were not confirmed, doctors suspect that he could have been poisoned, Mash and Baza reported, citing sources. On July 11, the "VGA" of the Kherson region announced the prevention of an assassination attempt on Saldo.
On the same day, in the Russian-occupied Kharkiv region, a car was blown up with a pro-Russian official appointed by the Russian Federation to the post of head of the village of Veliky Burluk Yevgeny Yunakov – he died. Before that, in June in Kherson, the car of Dmitry Savluchenko , the head of the Family, Youth and Sports Department of the so-called military-civilian administration (MAC) of the Kherson region, was blown up in Kherson, he died on the spot.